Man airlifted after city motorcycle wreck

Lincolnton police said a 25-year-old Maiden man was airlifted to a Charlotte hospital after crashing his motorcycle Monday afternoon along a city street.

Emergency Medical Services flew Christopher Allen Cottrell to Carolinas Medical Center-Main in Charlotte following the incident, according to a police report.

The man had been traveling East on East Gaston Street Extension in Lincolnton just after 4 p.m. when he took the road’s curve at a high rate of speed, propelling him down an embankment and into a ditch near Mohican Mills, police said.

According to officers, the road’s curve is significantly sharp and a common area for wrecks.

Police noted they located no signs of alcohol at the scene.

Cottrell has since been released from the hospital, Chief Rodney Jordan said.